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Displaying 15 of about 87 resultsThe purpose of this report is to better understand the impact of climate risks on Morocco’s banking sector. This includes understanding the banking sector’s exposure to sectors and regions that are vulnerable to climate physical and transition risks, as well as a quantification of climate impacts on banks’ balance sheets under different scenarios. This…
The people of Uganda, through the Constituent Assembly in Objective 23 and Article 249 of the resulting Constitution, called for an end to intolerable and persistent loss of life, suffering and disruption of economic activities by disasters resulting from the lack of preparedness and patchy uncoordinated responses. Relief, disaster risk reduction and ma…
The core objective of the project is to build the resilience of food-insecure smallholders through an integrated risk management approach which includes weather index insurance, assets creation, credit and savings interventions, and climate services.
The El Niño event in 2015/2016 was one of the strongest since at least 1950. Through surveys and interviews with key informants, this report finds that businesses in the capital cities of Zambia, Botswana and Kenya experienced major disruption to their activities from El Niño related hydroelectric load shedding, water supply disruption and flooding…
This report examines how transnational physical climate change risks are managed in a selection of European countries, in the EU and in the private sector in general. The report has been prepared by EY on behalf of the Norwegian Environment Agency, with the aim of providing an overview of current knowledge on transnational climate change risks in oth…
This technical brief highlights key considerations and good practices for structuring resilient infrastructure public-private partnerships (PPPs) through Policy and Legislation; Contracting and Disaster Risk Allocation; Procurement, Monitoring, and Payment; and Insurance. The brief was developed based on country case studies on Japan, India, and Kenya a…
The economy of the United Republic of Tanzania is growing fast but remains vulnerable to disasters, which are likely to worsen with climate change. Its transportation system, which mainly consists of roads, often get disrupted by floods. How could the resilience of the transportation infrastructures be improved?
The authors formulate a new type of mode…
This brief provides an overview of the state of knowledge on transboundary climate risks in Europe and explores how this knowledge could help the Member States, businesses and the EU as a whole to advance climate-resilient trade and production. Three key priorities should guide decision-making, according to this brief: effectiveness in reducing risk; a…
This study argues that the focus on insurance by developed countries is too narrow and comes at the expense of a serious consideration of other options. Insurance is only one tool in a much larger toolbox. The emphasis on insurance is also self-serving and diverts the focus from the failure of developed countries to provide adequate and predictable publ…
This paper is the third in a series providing an introduction to key discussions around disaster risk reduction (DRR) towards the Global Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction in May 2013 providing an introduction to key discussions around DRR. It explores how disaster risk reduction fits with other development concerns including climate change adaption,…
This report summarises the findings from a 2011 regional survey conducted by the Asian Disaster Reduction Center (ADRC) on the private sector preparedness among Asia-Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) economies. Based on lessons learned from past catastrophic events such as the Great Hanshin-Awaji Earthquake, Hurricane Katrina, and the Great East Japan…
This publication discusses several cases of collaborations between various stakeholders to achieve resilience to disaster risk. In fact it explains how collaboration among business, government and NGOs could be the key to living with turbulence and change in the 21st Century These collaborations combine the capacities, talents, reach and resou…
This paper outlines opportunities for collaborative efforts in disaster recovery between these sectors with a view to providing a pathway to a more sustainable and resilient development. It was informed by discussions at the Disaster Preparedness Forum 2014 in Manilla, which brought together thought leaders from the business, media, government and human…
This study was commissioned by the global project on “Developing Risk Management Approaches for Climate Risks”, implemented by the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GIZ) in partnership with Allianz Reinsurance. The aim of this research is to analyse and identify a) the risks (perceived and experienced) faced by Moroccan MSMEs, b)…
This policy brief draws on research undertaken in Laikipia County in central Kenya under the Women Entrepreneurs in Climate Change Adaptation (WECCA) project. The authors use this case study to underscore the challenges faced by female entrepreneurs in Africa in the face of climate change. They make policy recommendations that may support these entrepre…